ChessCube has been cracking down on users who have been found to have sandbagged in order to win Cubits in games, and Crowns in Tournaments. We've seen many users get back to us after being banned - stating that they were not aware that what they were doing was against our Acceptable Usage Policy.

So, just to make it clear, here are a few points:

What is sandbagging?Wikipedia defines sandbagging as: "Sandbagging (chess, Go, billiards or other such games), a player deliberately lowers his competitive rating, in order to play in a future event with a lower rating and consequently have a better chance to win."

Where does ChessCube mention that sandbagging is not allowed?In our Acceptable Usage Policy, section 3, point 6:"you cannot assist others by deliberately losing for whatever reason, including to boost their rating."

In my own point of view, it so happened that my tournament rating getting lower because I am quite effective in 5 minutes game, while in the most tournaments the time control is from 1 minute to 3minutes only. So, when I participate in tournaments that the participants are lowly rated players, I most likely win the tournament. So I am not a sandbagger! i am clear cut player that wanted to learn. I almost lost more than 50 USD here but its okay because its fun playing here.

Similarly i lost many games to low rated on time..... try to adopt yourselves to 3 min games... Regular practice makes it... Clearly it is mentioned that lowering our rating continuously without any reason is sandbagging....

I love chess cube and respect his rules so, I apologize if I sandbagging by mistake. It happen when there is no chance to win atournament so, I resign in the remaining matches.I think many users doing this so, good luck in catching them and thanx for all chess moderators.

In the last tournament I played in, there was a big fight afterwards because the winner had a history of simply creating new accounts to give him an advantage when he started a tournament. I hope there's a crackdown on this also.